ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY, SHOWING THE
CONDITION OF THE NAVY IN THE YEAR 1835.

COMMUNICATED TO CONGRESS, WITH THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE,
DECEMBER 8, 1835.

Navy Department, December
5, 1835.

To the President of the
United States:

Sir:

In presenting to your consideration
the condition of our navy for the past year, it affords me great satisfaction to
state that all the available means for its improvement have been successfully applied,
and that its operations in protecting our commerce, although inadequate to the exigencies
of that great and growing interest, have been highly honorable to the officers serving
upon our naval stations at home and abroad.

Since my report of the 29th
November, 1834, the ship of the line NorthCarolina has been thoroughly
repaired in her hull, has been lately taken out of dock, and may be fitted for sea
in eighty days.

The repairs of the ship of
the line Independence, now in dock at Boston, have been commenced, and are
progressing with great dispatch. The frigates Constitution and Constellation have
been equipped and sent to sea. The frigate UnitedStates has been
prepared, and is ready for the reception of a crew. The hull of the frigate Columbia,
at Washington, has been so nearly completed, under the law for the gradual improvement
of the navy, that she may be launched in the course of this month. The sloops-of-war
Peacock and Vandalia have been equipped and sent to sea. The sloop-of-war
Warren is taking in her crew, and will sail in a few days. The sloops-of-war
Concord and Boston have been prepared and are ready for the reception
of their crews; and the Lexington will be equally prepared in a few weeks.

The repairs of the sloops-of-war
Falmouth and Natchez, and of the schooner Grampus, have been
recently commenced, and it is believed that in a few weeks they may be ready for
the reception of their crews.

The building of a store-ship,
authorized by a law of the 30th of June, 1834, has been commenced at Philadelphia,
and a steam vessel has been commenced at New York, but will not be ready for service
until some time in the summer of 1836.

The ships of the line Alabama,
Vermont, Virginia, Pennsylvania, NewYork, and
the frigates Santee, Cumberland, Sabine, Savannah, Raritan,
and St. Lawrence, are on the stocks, well protected from the weather,
and as nearly completed as it is proper they should be, until it is determined to
launch them.

For a more detailed statement
of the condition of those vessels, as well as that of the ships of the line Franklin,
Washington, Columbus, and Ohio, and their means of repair,
I beg leave to refer to a report of the Commissioners of the Navy Board, herewith
submitted, marked K; and for the amount of timber, iron, and other materials procured
for the gradual improvement of the navy, I refer to their report, marked I.

The ship of the line Delaware,
the frigate Potomac, the sloop JohnAdams, and the schooner
Shark have been employed in the Mediterranean during the last year. The frigate
Constitution sailed for that station on the 19th of August last from New
York. The frigate UnitedStates returned from the Mediterranean on
the 10th of December last. The Delaware is ordered to the United States,
and is daily expected.

On the West India station the
sloops-of-war Vandalia, St. Louis, and Falmouth, and
the schooners Grampus and Experiment, have been employed. The Vandalia,
after undergoing considerable repairs, sailed from Norfolk on the 14th of January
last, to resume her station in the West Indies. The Falmouth returned from
that station on the 1st of August last, and is now at Norfolk; the schooner Experiment
also returned from that station in April last, and has been employed on the survey
of the coast. The Grampus returned to Norfolk on the 23d of September last,
is undergoing repairs, and will soon resume her station in the West India squadron.
The frigate Constellation sailed for the West Indies on the 8th of October
last from Norfolk.

The sloops-of-war Natchez,
Erie, and Ontario, and the schooner Enterprise, composed the
squadron on the Brazil station. The Natchez has lately returned to the United
States, having arrived at New York on the 3d of October. The schooner Enterprise
has been detached from that station, and ordered on a cruise to the East Indies;
she sailed in company with the sloop Peacock from Rio on the 12th of July
last, the Peacock having sailed from New York for that station on the 23d
of April; in June last, the Ontario was ordered to the coast of Africa, with
instructions to visit the Island of St. Thomas, Bassa Cove, Cape Palm as, and Mesurado.

The vessels which have been
employed in the Pacific are, the frigate Brandywine, sloops Fairfield
and Vincennes, and the schooners Dolphin and Boxer. The Vincennes
has been ordered home by the way of the East Indies, and the Fairfield has
lately arrived at Norfolk.

The events of the last year
furnish much additional evidence that our naval force in commission is not adequate
to the protection of our rapidly increasing commerce. The frequent insurrections
and revolutions in the governments of South America and of Mexico endanger our merchant
vessels upon the Atlantic as well as Pacific ocean, and in the Gulf of Mexico, and
even upon our own coast.

Influenced by a knowledge of
these circumstances, and in accordance with your suggestions, I have asked and obtained
from the Board of Navy Commissioners an estimate of the increased annual expense
of adding two frigates, three sloops-of-war, and four steam vessels to our force
now in commission, to be employed upon foreign stations as well as upon our own
coast.

By their report it appears
that such an addition to our vessels in commission would require annually an appropriation
of four hundred and seventy-eight thousand dollars: but as not more than one steam
vessel can be finished in the next year, the appropriation wanted for 1836 for this
purpose need not exceed four hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars. The sum is
small compared with the benefits that may be fairly calculated to result from its
expenditure in affording protection to our commence, independently of the advantage
to the efficiency and discipline of our navy, by calling into active service a large
number of officers now unemployed.

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A large portion of the entire
expenditure for the additional force proposed must be incurred, even if it should
not be called into service.

The vessels necessary for such
increase of force (except the steam vessels) will, if not so employed, remain at
our wharves, affording no benefit to the country, and suffering more from decay
than they would do if at sea; and a large portion of the officers necessary for
their command, although earnestly asking for service, will remain on shore, receiving
pay, but performing no duty; adding nothing to their professional skill, but losing
their habits of discipline, which can only be preserved by constant exercise.

Should the proposed increase
of force be sanctioned by Congress, we shall have in commission, in the year 1836,
one ship of the line, six frigates, fourteen sloops-of-war, five schooners, and
one steam vessel, with an addition of three steam vessels in succeeding years, as
soon as the same can be prepared, the estimated expense of which appears by the
report of the Commissioners, marked D, 1.

Appropriations for the gradual
improvement of our navy yards are next in importance to the like appropriations
for the gradual improvement of our navy. The necessity of more ample means for protecting
our shipping, as well as the immense amount of public property in the different
yards, must be apparent to every one who is acquainted with the subject; and the
expediency of increasing the facilities for constructing and repairing our ships
is not less apparent. Moderate appropriations, in addition to those that are usual,
for three or four years, would accomplish those important objects. In accordance
with this view of the subject, I submit a letter of the Board of Navy Commissioners,
marked No. 2, together with an estimate, marked E 1, of the probable cost of the
proposed improvements, which amounts to three millions five hundred thousand dollars,
including that of the dry dock at New York, amounting to nine hundred thousand dollars.

A national foundry for the
purpose of casting cannon, shot, and shells, as well for the army as the navy, was
a subject of discussion before the two Houses of Congress at their late session,
but was postponed in consequence of the shortness of the session and the pressure
of more urgent business. No doubt can be entertained of the importance of such an
establishment, when we consider the great improvements made in the fabrication of
small arms at the different armories of the United States.

In our future wars, especially
on the ocean, we must rely much upon the excellence of our cannon. The bursting
of a single cannon may cause, as it often has done, the loss of a battle. The disasters
from this cause, that occurred during the revolutionary as well as the late war,
admonish us to guard against like disasters in future, which, it is believed, may
be avoided by the means proposed.

It is only by a long series
of experiments, and those attended with great expense, that we can hope to discover
the best material for making cannon which our country affords, and the art of fabricating
them with the most perfect accuracy and efficiency. Believing that such discoveries
and improvements are attainable, and that they would be highly important in the
army, and still more so in the navy, I must be permitted to express a hope that
the subject will be revived at the approaching session of Congress, and that a plan
of a national foundry will be adopted.

The importance of rearing a
body of seamen, by enlisting into the service of our navy boys over the age of thirteen
and under the age of eighteen, until they should arrive at the age of twenty-one
years, has already attracted the attention of Congress. At the last session a bill
for this purpose was introduced into the Senate. Every year the importance of this
measure becomes more apparent. Able seamen are much wanted, while there are boys
enough in our cities, leading lives of idleness and vice, for want of employment,
who, if thus enlisted, under judicious regulations, would, in a few years, afford
us a sufficient corps of able seamen to man our navy, and, in the meantime, render
services to their country worth their pay.

The compensation to be given,
by the late pay bill, to professors of mathematics, is such as to command the services
of those who are every way competent to perform the duties of this station. A regulation
is adopted to appoint none to this station who shall not receive a certificate of
competency, after submitting to a rigid examination by scientific gentlemen who
shall be appointed for that purpose. This will be of great advantage to the young
officers of the navy; and if a large portion of them should be called into active
service, by employing an additional naval force for the protection of our commerce,
they will be enabled to perfect themselves in seamanship, the most important part
of their education, and which can be acquired only at sea; but to make them accomplished
officers something more is required than can probably be derived from those sources.
A knowledge of military tactics, of engineering, and drawing, is deemed indispensable
in the education of an officer of the army, and which ought to be deemed equally
so in the education of a naval officer. So much of chemistry, mineralogy, geology,
and natural history, as is taught at the Military academy, although not absolutely
essential to the military or naval officer, yet is decidedly more important to the
latter than to the former.

If provision should be made
for the admission of a class of one hundred midshipmen at a time at the academy
at West Point, to pursue such studies as should be prescribed by the Navy Department,
and to be succeeded at the end of one or two years by another class, all, in their
turn, might receive the advantage of this course of studies, highly necessary to
their education as accomplished officers of the navy, and at a small expense; as
the midshipmen, while at the academy, would receive no more pay than if attending
the schools at the navy yards, or if waiting orders.

A national observatory, although
not immediately necessary to the defence of our country, is remotely so; and considered
with reference to the bearing it would have upon our navy, our commerce, and scientific
pursuits, it assumes an importance worthy the consideration of Congress.

It is hardly to be doubted
that we shall, at some future period, make such an establishment, and I will venture
to express an opinion that no time can be more propitious for such an undertaking
than the present. It would not be attended with any great expense. It is necessary
now to employ an officer of science to keep our maps and charts, to regulate our
chronometers, and to preserve all mathematical and philosophical instruments required
for the naval service, and buildings are necessary for these purposes.

These duties would properly
devolve upon the superintendent of an observatory, and the buildings necessary to
such an establishment would be amply sufficient for the preservation of our maps,
charts, and instruments.

Under the act concerning naval
pensions and the navy pension fund, eighteen invalid pensions have been granted
since my last report, making the number on the roll three hundred and five, and
the annual amount required to pay them 824,944; and forty-one widows' pensions have
been granted, making the number on the roll one hundred and fifty, and the annual
amount necessary to pay them $32,594.

The annual charge, therefore,
according to the present roll, will amount to $57,538.

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It is not probable that all
on the list will claim; but as the death of a pensioner is not officially known
except when the account is settled by his or her representative, the number is made
out from the rolls in this Department. Some have not claimed for two, three, four,
and five years, but, as they are not known to bo dead, their names are still continued
on the rolls. The receipts and expenditures on account of the fund, to the 30th
September last, will be seen in the statement marked M, and the amount and description
of stocks belonging to the fund in the statement marked M, 1.

Under the act of the 19th June,
1834, respecting pensions chargeable to the privateer pension fund, since my last
report, six widows have received five years' pension each, amounting to $2,400;
more than five years having elapsed since the date to which they were last paid.
Two invalid pensions have also been granted, making the number on the roll thirty-six,
and the annual amount required to pay them $3,184.

The account of stock, and of
receipts and expenditures, will be seen in statement N.

The condition of the navy hospital
fund, including receipts and expenditures, will appear in statement O. The annual
receipts are much greater than the disbursements; and, as they will probably continue
to be greater for several years, I respectfully repeat the suggestion in my last
report, that authority be given to vest the surplus in some well secured stock,
for the benefit of the fund.

Under the act of 30th June,
1834, the widows of all officers, seamen, and marines, who have died in the naval
service since the first day of January, 1824, or who may die in said service, by
reason of disease contracted, or of casualties by drowning or otherwise, or of injuries
received while in the line of duty, are entitled to pensions equal to half the amount
of the pay to which their husbands respectively were entitled at the time of their
deaths.

The act of the 3d of March
last, "to regulate the pay of the navy of the United States," and which
increased the pay of many officers, is silent as to pensions. A difficulty arises
in ascertaining the proper amount of pension to be allowed to widows of naval officers
whose pay has been increased by this act. The pay of a captain in command of a squadron
was increased to four thousand dollars a year; when on other duty, to three thousand
five hundred dollars; and when off duty, to two thousand five hundred dollars. A
corresponding increase of pay is made to other" officers.

In the case of a captain dying
when in command of a squadron on a foreign station, a question arises whether his
widow should receive a pension to the amount of six hundred dollars a year, to which
she would have been entitled if this act had not passed, or whether she shall receive
half the amount of pay to which her husband was entitled at the time of his death,
as a captain commanding a squadron, as captain on other duty, or as a captain off
duty.

After much deliberation, it
has been decided to allow a pension in such cases of $1,135.62 a year, being the
half pay of a captain commanding a squadron, reduced by the amount of $1,728.75,
equal to his allowance before this act. The salary of four thousand dollars a year
to a captain in command of a squadron is in lieu of former pay and emoluments. Those
emoluments, excepting one ration a day, amounted to $1,728.75, which sum, deducted
from $4,000, leaves $2,271.25, the half of which, $1,135.62, is considered as the
proper amount of the widow's annual pension.

Questions on pensions more
complicated than this may arise under this act, especially in the case of the deaths
of surgeons and assistant surgeons, whose grades of pay are more numerous than those
of captains.

The necessity of an explanatory
act, to obviate these difficulties, is respectfully suggested. By the act of Congress
of the 10th July, 1832, it is required that any surplus money belonging to the navy
pension fund shall be vested in the stock of the Bank of the United States. The
amount so vested is $619,000, and this Department has no authority to make a different
investment of money without the further action of Congress.

Previously to the passing of
the act of the 30th of June, 1834, for the better organization of the United States
marine corps, double rations had been allowed to the commandant of that corps, and
to the officers of the same, commanding at the Navy yards at Portsmouth, Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Norfolk, and Pensacola, and to the senior marine
officers in the squadrons in the Mediterranean, the West Indies, the Brazilian coast,
and the Pacific ocean, all receiving the sanction of Congress by their appropriations.
By this act, the officers of the marine corps are to receive the same pay, emoluments,
and allowances as are given to officers of similar grades in the infantry of the
army.

The act of the 16th of March,
1802, fixing the military peace establishment of the United States, authorizes allowances,
to the commanding officers of each separate post, of such additional number of rations
as the President of the United States shall from to time direct.

These provisions of this last
act were continued by an act of the 3d of March, 1815, fixing the military peace
establishment.

The paymaster of the marine
corps made payments for double rations to officers heretofore receiving the same,
from the 1st of July to the 30th of September, 1834; but the accounting officers
of the Treasury did not think proper to allow the same, inasmuch as the commands
of these officers had never been designated as separate stations, agreeably to the
rule prescribed for the army. This is a case of difficulty which, it is respectfully
suggested, requires the interposition of Congress.

Being still of the opinion
expressed in my last report, that the public interests would be promoted by having
the marine barracks placed without the navy yards to which they are attached, as
early as may be practicable, estimates are submitted for purchasing sites and erecting
barracks at places where they are deemed most necessary.

In performance of my duty under
the act of the 3d of March last, authorizing the construction of a dry dock for
the naval service, in the harbor of New York, or its adjacent waters, I proceeded
in May last to the city of New York, where I was met by an able engineer, Loammi
Balwin, Esq., whom I had previously engaged to make the soundings and other examinations
necessary to a proper selection of a suitable site. After a long and laborious examination,
Mr. Baldwin made his report, which has been submitted to your consideration, by
which it appears that the proposed dry dock may be advantageously constructed in
the Navy yard at Brooklyn. A selection of this place for this purpose is recommended
by the consideration that the land occupied as the Navy yard belongs to the United
States, and that the public buildings upon it, which are of great value, cannot
be abandoned without serious loss.

One difficulty presented itself,
which created some delay in making this selection; a building for the purpose of
distilling turpentine had been erected so near the navy yard as greatly to endanger
the public property; other buildings for similar purposes, or for purposes equally
dangerous, might be erected near

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the yard, if not prevented
by some act of legislation. I am happy to state that the common council of Brooklyn,
when the case was laid before them, promptly passed an ordinance, which, it is believed,
will effectually secure the property in the navy yard from the danger of this nuisance
and all similar ones; and it cannot be doubted that the common council of Brooklyn
will grant all reasonable protection and accommodation to this navy yard, and that
the State of New York will protect and promote the interests of the same by any
legislative acts that may be found to be necessary and proper.

I shall therefore proceed,
under your direction, with as much dispatch as present and future appropriations
will permit, to cause the dry docks thus authorized by law to be constructed in
the Navy yard at Brooklyn.

Under the act of the 30th of
June, 1834, "authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to make experiments for
the safety of the steam engine," and appropriating $5,000 for that purpose,
many proposed improvements have been submitted for the purpose of being tested by
experiments. Some of these were so easily tested by those having steam engines in
operation, that the aid of government was not needed. Others were attended with
greater difficulty, and could not be tested without the expense of constructing
boilers and other machinery for the purpose. These proposed improvements have not
been such as, in my opinion, to warrant a large expenditure of money, and no experiments
have been made upon them. Such experiments, however, would have been made, if they
could have been so made without the expense of constructing engines.

The act seemed particularly
to require that the steam engine devised by Benjamin Philips, of Philadelphia, should
be examined and tested, and that Mr. Philips should be employed in making the experiments.
Mr. Philips was, therefore, employed to construct a model engine, with boilers and
other machinery which he deemed necessary for the purpose of testing his improvements,
which he brought to this district, where he remained several weeks, making his experiments
before many members of the two Houses of Congress, before the officers of the different
departments, and others.

I attended very carefully to
these experiments, but have not been able to preceive in them any improvement increasing
the safety of the steam engine.

The money paid for Mr. Philips'
machinery, preparation and experiments, amounts to $519.75; the residue of the appropriation
remains unexpended.

The fourth report of Mr. Hassler,
superintendent of the coast survey, upon the operations performed in that work between
the months of May and December, 1835, together with his detailed estimate of the
appropriations required for the same for the next year, are herewith submitted,
marked T.

Much work appears to have been
done on the secondary triangulations, on the topographical operations, and by the
sounding parties. That more has not been done in the primary triangulations is explained
in the report.

Of the appropriations heretofore
made for this survey, there remained, on the first day of this month, an unexpected
balance of $8,823.

The duties of the sounding
parties are performed by the officers and seamen of the navy, and the chief part
of the expense is charged to the navy appropriations. As, however, there are some
expenses which cannot be charged to these appropriations, they must necessarily
be charged to the appropriations for the coast survey. In September, 1834, the schooner
Jersey, not wanted for any purposes of the navy, was purchased for the sounding
party under the command of Lieutenant Gedney. The price of this vessel, (63,350)
therefore, could not be charged to the naval appropriations; it was properly charged
to the appropriations for the coast survey. For the same reason, the boats, equipments,
and other expenses for the schooner, amounting to $1,888.60, were charged to the
same appropriation, as was also the charge for the extra pay to the officers, amounting
to $650 in all, for the year 1834, to $5,888.60.

During the present season the
expenses of this schooner, chargeable to the coast survey, have amounted to $1,399,
making the whole expense of this schooner, for the years 1834 and 1835, chargeable
to the coast survey, amount to $7,287.60.

It is not probable that the
expense of this schooner, chargeable to the coast survey appropriation, will, for
the next year, exceed $1,500.

The schooner Experiment,
employed by the sounding party under Lieutenant Blake, belongs to the navy. The
coast survey appropriation has, therefore been charged only for equipments, which
were not necessary for the purposes of the navy. These, with other expenses attending
the operations of the sounding party on board this schooner, from the 1st of July
last, when she was sent upon the survey, to the 30th of September last, amounted
to $2,517.73.

As most of the equipments of
these schooners will last for several years, with but little expense for repairs
and supply of articles which may be lost by accident, it is believed that the expenses
of both schooners and the sounding parties on board of them, for the next year,
chargeable to the coast survey, will not exceed $4,000.

It will be seen that this differs
widely from the statement of Mr. Hassler, which may be explained by the circumstance
that he did not derive his information from the books of the Treasury Department.

By a statement hereunto annexed,
marked P, it appears that of the appropriations heretofore made for the suppression
of the slave trade, there remains in the Treasury a balance of $13,489.55.

In my last report I took the
liberty of stating that some of the clerks in my Department did not receive salaries
proportioned to their services, or adequate to the decent support of themselves
and families; and I respectfully solicited that the salaries, particularly of the
chief clerk of the Navy Board, the warrant clerk, and the clerk keeping the register
of correspondence of this Department, whose duties are arduous, requiring both talent
and experience, should be increased, so that the first might receive $1,700 per
annum, and the others $1,490 each. I repeat the solicitation, from a thorough conviction
that their faithful services fully merit this increase of compensation.

The superintendent of the southwest
executive building receives but $250 per annum for his services, which, it is believed,
is a compensation too small to command the services of one competent to perform
the duties of the station. The sergeants acting as clerks to the commandant and
staff officers of the marine corps are paid at the rate of less than $700 a year
for all their services, which, it is respectfully suggested, is not an adequate
compensation.

The necessary references to
papers and documents connected with this report will be found in a schedule hereunto
annexed.

All of which is respectfully
submitted.

MAHLON DICKERSON.

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Schedule of papers accompanying the report of the Secretary
of the Navy to the President of the United States, of November, 1835.

No. 1. The letter of the Commissioners
of the Navy to the Secretary, transmitting the general and special estimates of
the navy for the year 1836.

No. 2. Letter of the Commissioners,
submitting estimate marked E, 1.

A. Estimate for the office
of the Secretary of the Navy.

B. Estimate for the office
of the Commissioners of the Navy.

C. Estimate for the expenses
of the southwest Executive building.

D. The general estimate for
the navy. Detailed estimate D, 1, for vessels in commission.

D, 2, for receiving vessels.

D, 3, for recruiting stations.

D, 4, for officers and others
attached to navy yards and shore stations, and the abstract or recapitulation.

E, 1. Estimate of the several
works, and their probable cost, which it is proposed to construct at the several
navy yards.

P. General estimate for the
marine corps.

Detailed estimates for the
marine corps, F, 1 to 4.

G. List of vessels, in commission,
of each squadron, their commanders and stations.

H. List of vessels in ordinary.

I. List of vessels building.

K. Report of the proceedings
under the law for the gradual increase of the navy.

L. Report of the proceedings
under the law for the gradual improvement of the navy.

M. Statement of the condition
of the navy pension fund.

M, 1. Amount and description
of stocks belonging to the navy pension fund.

N. Statement of the condition
of the privateer pension fund.

O. Statement of the condition
of the navy hospital fund.

P. Statement of the proceedings
under the law for the suppression of the slave trade.

Q. List of deaths.

R. List of resignations.

S. List of dismissions.

T. Mr. Hassler's fourth report
on coast survey.

No. 1.

Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 18, 1835.

Sir:

The Navy Commissioners have
the honor to transmit, herewith, the estimates for the navy for the year 1836, together
with the reports of the condition of the vessels building and in ordinary, and of
the measures which have been taken under the laws for the gradual increase and gradual
improvement of the navy.

Special estimates are also
submitted for steam vessels, according to your directions, and for other objects,
which do not fall within the usual annual appropriations for the navy, but which
are deemed essential to the public interests.

The general estimate for the
usual appropriations of the navy presents two columns, one showing the amounts estimated
for the year 1836, and the other showing the amounts appropriated for the year 1835.
This arrangement shows, at a single view, the differences between the amounts for
each of the items of the appropriation, as well as in the total amounts.

It will be perceived that the
total amount of the estimate for the year 1836 exceeds the amount appropriated for
1835, in the sum of $622,151.75.

A comparison of the differences
between the appropriations and estimates for each of the two first items
cannot be accurately made, because the additional appropriation made March 3d, 1835,
in consequence of the law establishing the pay of the navy, does not distinguish
the amounts applicable to each of the items; but the difference between the sums
of the two items for the two years shows an increase for 1836 of $184,141.75.

This increase arises, in part,
from a proposed addition to the force to be employed in commission, consisting of
two frigates, three sloops-of-war, and one steam vessel; in part, from a modification
of the pay of the officers by the laws of last session, and partly from a small
increase of pay to some persons at navy yards, as stated in connection with estimate
D, 4.

Under the third item, of provisions,
there is also an increase of $140,000. This arises, in part, from additional numbers
of persons proposed to be employed, and partly because the amount in the Treasury
is not supposed to justify a reduction from the total estimate under this head,
proportional to that made for 1835.

Under the fourth head, of repairs
of vessels in ordinary, &c. , the amount of the estimate is less than the sum
appropriated for the year 1835, in the sum of $24,000.

The appropriation for 1835,
and the estimate for 1836, under the fifth head, for medicine and hospital stores,
are the same, notwithstanding the proposed increase of force, in consequence of
the large sum still remaining in the Treasury.

Under the sixth head, for improvements
and repairs of navy yards, there is an increase in the estimates for 1836, over
the appropriations for 1835, of the sum of $287,010. This increase is large, but
is deemed necessary to meet the immediate wants of the public service. Although
much has been done in

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the different yards since the
adoption of approved plans, under the law of March 3d, 1827, much still remains
to be done to provide adequate means for the preservation of the materials which
a prudent foresight has directed to be collected for future use, or to prepare the
necessary conveniences for building, repairing, and equipping ships with proper
economy and dispatch. The board refrain from any further remarks upon the subject
at this time, as they have recently presented you with their views upon it in great
detail.

The increase of $35,000, under
the seventh head, for ordnance and ordnance stores, is occasioned by the necessity
of renewing the supplies of several articles embraced under that head of expenditures.

The estimates for enumerated
contingent is the same as the appropriation for 1835. It is possible that the alterations
made by the law of the last session for regulating the pay of the navy might authorize
some small reduction under this head; but, as the force in commission, and number
of persons to be employed, is proposed to be increased, and the appropriations under
the former laws were uniformly found to be insufficient, it has been deemed best
to make no alteration until the effects of the change shall be practically tested.

The ninth item, for other contingencies,
is the same as asked and granted for 1835.

The board beg leave to again
call your attention to the salary of their chief clerk, and to request, if it should
comport with your views, that your recommendation may be given for granting the
additional hundred dollars to his salary, as proposed in paper B, placing him on
the same footing as the chief clerks of his grade in other offices.

I have the honor to be, with
great respect, sir, your obedient servant,

JNO. RODGERS.

Hon. Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary
of the Navy.

No. 2.

Navy Commissioners' Office,
November 12, 1835.

Sir:

The Board of Navy Commissioners
beg leave respectfully to present for your consideration the propriety of asking
from Congress appropriations for a series of years, for the purpose of carrying
forward the works of a general and permanent character in the different navy yards,
which have been designated on the plans, in addition to those of a more special
character, which are usually embraced in the annual estimates.

Regular plans were first made
and approved for most of the navy yards in 1828, in conformity to the act of March
3d, 1827; previous to that time the buildings in the respective yards were generally
temporary in their character, limited in extent, and calculated for present wants,
and special rather than for general purposes. Since that time, two dry docks have
been built, and other important improvements and additions made in different yards;
but there is much still to be done to properly preserve the materials which are
authorized to be collected, and to provide the means of economically and rapidly
increasing, equipping, or repairing our vessels-of-war. Among the most important
of these objects, and which seem to require a special appropriation, to continue
for a series of years, are, the dry dock within the waters of the harbor of New
York, for which Congress has made a partial appropriation; the construction of permanent
quay walls, to prevent injury to the channels by their decay or want of stability;
the construction of secure and durable building slips and launching ways, ready
for building vessels; for ship houses to cover and shelter ships during their construction,
and whilst policy may require them to be kept in readiness for launching; for the
construction of timber docks and sheds, to season and prepare the quantities of
timber which a just regard to our future wants requires us to keep prepared; for
building pile wharves, where the quay walls are not intended to approach so near
the channel as to admit vessels to come to them for repairs and equipment; for the
construction of hydraulic docks, or inclined planes, in some of the yards, upon
which to examine and repair small vessels, and thus to leave the docks for the examination
and repair of the large ships; for gradually constructing the proposed wet basins,
and for reducing the surface of the yards to a proper graduation, by leveling and
excavation; and for the purchase of sites, when necessary.

The construction of the other
buildings, as storehouses and workshops, and the ordinary repairs to the different
buildings, may perhaps be best provided for as heretofore, that is, by annual appropriations
for the respective yards, upon estimates stating the particular objects of proposed
expenditure, made with reference to the particular wants of each year.

There being at present no civil
engineer employed in the navy, particular estimates of the expense of the different
objects could not be procured, which could be entirely depended upon for their accuracy.
It was deemed sufficient, however, for the general purposes in view, to take the
cost of objects which have already been built as the probable cost of those which
are to be constructed, making such allowances as the difference in dimensions, nature
of soil, and of difficulties to be overcome, seemed to demand.

Prom this general estimate,
it is believed that the sum of three millions five hundred thousand dollars will
be required for the purposes herein named, and that this sum may be advantageously
expended in the course of the next five years, if it should be deemed expedient
by Congress to appropriate, annually, the sum of seven hundred thousand dollars
for that period. (See the estimate enclosed herewith.)

In presenting this subject
to your consideration, the board would respectfully recall your attention to the
great disadvantages which the public service would experience from a want of the
improvements proposed, should they be delayed till a change of circumstances shall
require any great and sudden extension of our naval force in commission; and to
the great increase of expense, as well as inconvenience, if these works were to
be constructed when other objects of great and pressing importance might claim a
large portion of the financial resources of the country.

I have the honor to be, your
obedient servant,

JNO. RODGERS.

Hon. Mahlon Dickerson, Secretary
of the Navy.

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A.

Estimate of the sums required for the support of the office
of the Secretary of the Navy for the year 1836.

Secretary of the Navy

$6,000 00

Six clerks, per act of 20th
April, 1818

$8,200 00

One clerk, per act of 26th
May, 1824

1,000 00

One clerk, per act of 2d
March, 1827

1,000 00

10,200 00

One clerk of navy and privateer
pension funds, and navy hospital fund, per act of 10th July, 1832

$1,600 00

Messenger and assistant messenger

1,050 00

Contingent expenses

3,000 00

5,650 00

Submitted:

For two clerks, $400 additional
each, now at 1,000 each, per annum

$800 00

800 00

$22,650 00

Note.—The last item in this
estimate was submitted in my report of November, 1834. It was not acted on. It is
again respectfully submitted, with the hope that it will receive favorable notice.
Justice to the two gentlemen who are intended to be benefited by it, requires me
to say that their grade, as compared with the clerks of the other departments of
the government, as well as their important services and strict attention to duty,
entitle them to the increase of salary proposed.

B.

Estimate of the sums required for the support of the Navy
Commissioners' office for the year 1836.

For the salaries of the Commissioners
of the Navy Board

$10,500 00

For the salary of the secretary

2,000 00

For the salaries of their
clerks, draughtsmen, and messenger, per acts of 20th April, 1818, 20th May, 1824,
and 2d March, 1827

$8,450 00

Additional to the chief clerk,
making his salary equal to that allowed to all other chief clerks of his grade

100 00

8,550 00

For contingent expenses

1,800 00

$22,850 00

C.

Estimate of the sums required for the expenses of the southwest
Executive building for the year 1836.

Superintendent

$250

Two watchmen, at $500 each

1,000

Contingent expenses, including
fuel, labor, oil, repairs of building, engine, and improvement of the grounds

3,350

$4,600

D.

There will be required for
the navy during the year 1836, in addition to the balances that may remain on hand
on the first day of January, 1836:

Amount of estimate for 1836

Amount appropriated for 1836.

1.

For the pay of commission,
warrant, and petty officers, and of seamen

$1,974,538 91

2.

For pay of superintendents,
naval constructors, and all the civil establishment at the several yards

68,340 00

$1,858,737 16

3.

For provisions

590,000 00

450,000 00

4.

For the repairs of vessels
in ordinary, and the repairs and wear and tear of vessels in commission

950,000 00

974,000 00

--738--

Amount of estimate for 1836.

Amount appropriated for 1836

5.

For medicines and surgical
instruments, hospital stores, and other expenses on account of the sick

$40,000 00

$40,000 00

6.

For improvements and the
necessary repairs of navy yards, viz:

Portsmouth, N. H.

$67,000

Boston

199,575

New York

84,300

Philadelphia

11,750

Washington

37,500

Norfolk

167,000

Pensacola

64,000

631,125 00

344,115 00

7.

For ordnance and ordnance
stores

50,000 00

15,000 00

8.

For contingent expenses that
may accrue for the following purposes, viz: * For the freight and transportation
of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockage, storage
and rent, traveling expenses of officers, and transportation of seamen; house
rent for pursers when attached to yards and stations where no house is provided;
for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and
fuel to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending
deserters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowance to persons
attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry, or other services as authorized
by law; for printing and stationery of every description, and for working the
lithographic press; and for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments,
chronometers, models and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire engines
and machinery, and for the repair of steam engines; for the purchase and maintenance
of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber-wheels, and workmen's tools of every
description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage and towing
ships-of-war; for furniture of vessels in commission, and fixtures in houses for
officers as allowed by law, for taxes and assessments on public property; for
assistance rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labor at navy yards,
not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel, and for candles
and oil; for repairs of magazines or powder houses; for preparing moulds for ships
to be built, and for no other object or purpose whatever

295,000 00

295,000 00

9.

For contingent expenses for
objects not hereinbefore enumerated

3,000 00

3,000 00

$4,602,003 91

$3,979,852 16

Note.—The excess of this estimate
for 1836 over the appropriation for 1835, amounting to $622,157.75, arises from
a proposed increase of force to be employed in commission, from a proposed increase
of expenditure for improving the navy yards, and from the late modifications in
the pay of the officers.

The letter from the Board of
Navy Commissioners to the Secretary of the Navy, of the 18th November, 1835, and
the detailed estimates, give further and more particular explanations of the causes
of this difference.

JOHN RODGERS.

I. CHAUNCEY.

C. MORRIS.

D, 1.

Estimate of the amount of pay that will be necessary for
the year 1836,
for the following vessels in commission, viz: one ship of the line, five frigates
of the first class, and one frigate of the second class, fourteen sloops-of-war
of the first class, five schooners and one steam vessel, being part of the first
item of the general estimate.

Five commanders of squadrons

$20,000 00

One ship of the line

152,455 25

Five frigates, 1st class,
at $88,905.25

444,526 25

One frigate, 2d class

72,951 91

Fourteen sloops-of-war, 1st
class, at $44,023.25

616,325 50

Five schooners; at $18,103.25

90,516 25

One steam vessel

26,091 25

$1,422,866 41

--739--

D, 2.

Estimate of the number and pay, of officers, &c. ,
required for five receiving vessels, for the year 1836, being part of the first item
in the general estimate.

Boston.

New York.

Philadelphia.

Baltimore.

Norfolk.

Total number.

Aggregate Amount.

Commandants

1

1

1

1

4

$8,400 00

Lieutenants

3

3

2

2

3

13

19,500 00

Masters

1

1

1

1

4

4,000 00

Pursers

1

1

1

3

1,987 50

Passed midshipmen

2

2

2

6

4,500 00

Midshipmen

6

6

3

3

6

24

8,400 00

Boatswains

1

1

1

3

1,500 00

Boatswains' mates

1

1

1

1

1

5

1,140 00

Gunners' mates

1

1

1

3

684 00

Carpenters' mates

1

1

1

1

4

912 00

Masters-at-arms

1

1

1

3

648 00

Ships' stewards

1

1

1

1

13

5

1,080 00

Officers' stewards

1

1

1

1

1

5

1,080 00

Ships' cooks

1

1

1

1

1

5

1,080 00

Officers' cooks

2

2

1

2

7

1,512 00

Seamen

2

2

2

2

2

10

1,440 00

Ordinary seamen

6

6

4

2

6

24

2,880 00

Boys

10

10

3

2

10

35

2,940 00

Number of persons

42

42

22

15

42

163

$63,683 50

D, 3.

Estimate of the pay of the
officers attached to five recruiting stations, for the year 1836, being part of the first item
in the general estimate.

Boston.

New York.

Philadelphia.

Baltimore.

Norfolk.

Total number.

Aggregate Amount.

Commanders

1

1

1

1

1

5

$10,500 00

Lieutenants

2

2

2

2

2

10

15,000 00

Midshipmen

2

2

2

2

2

10

3,500 00

Surgeons

1

1

1

1

1

5

8,750 00

Number of persons

6

6

6

6

6

30

$37,750 00

D, 4.

Estimate for the pay of officers and others, at the several
navy yards and stations, for 1836.

PORTSMOUTH, N. H.

Naval.

One captain

$3,500 00

One commander

2,100 00

One lieutenant

1,500 00

One master

1,000 00

One surgeon

1,800 00

Three midshipmen, $350 each

1,050 00

One boatswain

500 00

One gunner

500 00

One carpenter

500 00

One sailmaker

500 00

One purser

941 75

One steward

216 00

$14,107 75

Ordinary.

One lieutenant

$1,500 00

One carpenter's mate

228 00

Six seamen, $144 each

864 00

Twelve ordinary seamen, $120
each,

1,440 00

4,032 00

--740--

Amount.

Aggregate.

Civil.

One storekeeper

$1,400 00

One master builder and inspector
of timber

1,200 00

One clerk to the yard

900 00

One clerk to commandant

900 00

One clerk to storekeeper

500 00

One clerk to master builder

400 00

One porter

300 00

$5,600 00

$23,739 75

BOSTON.

Naval.

One captain

$3,500 00

One commander

2,100 00

Two lieutenants, $1,500 each

3,000 00

Two masters, $1,000 each

2,000 00

One surgeon

1,800 00

Two assistant surgeons, $950
each

1,900 00

One chaplain

1,200 00

Two professors, $1,200 each

2,400 00

Four midshipmen, $350 each

1,400 00

One boatswain

500 00

One gunner

500 00

One carpenter

500 00

One sailmaker

500 00

One purser

1,141 75

One steward

216 00

One steward, assistant to
purser

360 00

$23,017 75

Ordinary.

Three lieutenants, $1,500
each

$4,500 00

One master

1,000 00

Six midshipmen, $350 each

2,100 00

One boatswain

500 00

One gunner

500 00

One carpenter

500 00

One carpenter's mate

228 00

Three carpenters' mates,
as caulkers, $228 each

684 00

Two boatswains' mates, $228
each

456 00

Fourteen seamen, $144 each

2,016 00

Thirty-six ordinary seamen,
$120 each

4,320 00

16,804 00

Hospital.

One surgeon

$1,750 00

One assistant surgeon

950 00

One steward

360 00

Two nurses, (when the number
of sick shall require them,) $120 each

240 00

Two washers, (when the number
of sick shall require them,) $96 each

192 00

One cook

144 00

3,636 00

Civil.

One storekeeper

$1,700 00

One master builder

2,300 00

One inspector and measurer
of timber

900 00

One clerk to yard

900 00

One clerk to commandant

900 00

One second clerk to commandant

750 00

One clerk to storekeeper

750 00

One second clerk to storekeeper

450 00

One clerk to master builder

650 00

One keeper of the magazine

480 00

One porter

300 00

10,080 00

$53,537 75

Note.—The surgeon and assistant
surgeons of the yard are to be required to attend to the duties of the yard, to
those of the receiving ship, and to the marines; one to be always on board the receiving
ship.

--741--

Amount

Aggregate.

NEW YORK.

Naval.

One captain

$3,500 00

One commander

2,100 00

Two lieutenants, $1,500 each

3,000 00

Two masters, $1,000 each

2,000 00

One surgeon

1,800 00

Two assistant surgeons, $950
each

1,900 00

One chaplain

1,200 00

Two professors, $1,200 each

2,400 00

Four midshipmen, $350 each

1,400 00

One boatswain

500 00

One gunner

500 00

One carpenter

500 00

One sailmaker

500 00

One purser

1,141 75

One steward, assistant to
purser

360 00

One steward

216 00

$23,017 75

Ordinary.

Three lieutenants, $1,500
each

$4,500 00

One master

1,000 00

Six midshipmen, $350 each

2,100 00

One boatswain

500 00

One gunner

500 00

One carpenter

500 00

Four carpenters' mates; three
as caulkers, $228 each

912 00

Two boatswains' mates, $228
each

456 00

Fourteen seamen, $144 each

2,016 00

Thirty-six ordinary seamen,
$120 each

4,320 00

16,804 00

Hospital.

One surgeon

$1,750 00

One assistant surgeon

950 00

One steward

360 00

Two nurses (when the number
of sick shall require them), $120 each

240 00

Two washers (when the number
of sick shall require them), $96 each

192 00

One cook

144 00

3,636 00

Civil.

One storekeeper

$1,700 00

One master builder

2,300 00

One inspector and measurer
of timber

900 00

One clerk to yard

900 00

One clerk to commandant

900 00

One second clerk to commandant

750 00

One clerk to storekeeper

750 00

One second clerk to storekeeper

450 00

One clerk to master builder

650 00

One keeper of the magazine

480 00

One porter

300 00

10,080 00

$53,537 75

Note.—The surgeon and assistant
surgeons of the yard are to be required to attend to the duties of the yard, the
receiving ship, and to the marines; one to be always on board the receiving ship.

PHILADELPHIA.

Amount.

Aggregate.

Naval.

One captain

$3,500 00

One commander

2,100 00

One lieutenant

1,500 00

One master

1,000 00

One surgeon

1,800 00

One assistant surgeon

950 00

One chaplain

1,200 00

One boatswain

500 00

One gunner

500 00

One carpenter

500 00

One purser

1,141 75

One steward

216 00

$14,907 75

--742--

Amount.

Aggregate.

Ordinary

One lieutenant

$1,500 00

One boatswain's mate

228 00

Pour seamen, $144 each

576 00

Twelve ordinary seamen, $120
each

1,440 00

$3,744 00

Hospital.

One surgeon

$1,750 00

One assistant surgeon

950 00

One steward

360 00

Two nurses (when the number
of sick shall require them), $120 each

240 00

Two washers (when the number
of sick shall require them), $96 each

192 00

One cook

144 00

3,636 00

Civil.

One storekeeper

$1,250 00

One master builder

2,000 00

One inspector and measurer
of timber

900 00

One clerk to yard

900 00

One clerk to commandant

900 00

One clerk to storekeeper

500 00

One clerk to master builder

400 00

One porter

300 00

$7,150 00

$29,437 75

Note.—The surgeon and assistant
surgeon of the yard are both to attend to the yard, receiving vessel, and marines.

Amount.

Aggregate.

WASHINGTON.

Naval.

One captain

$3,500 00

One commander

2,100 00

One lieutenant

1,500 00

Two masters; one in charge
of ordnance, $1,000 each

2,000 00

One surgeon

1,800 00

One assistant surgeon

950 00

One chaplain

1,200 00

One boatswain

500 00

One gunner (as laboratory
officer)

500 00

One carpenter

500 00

One purser

1,141 75

One steward

216 00

One steward, assistant to
purser

360 00

One hospital steward

216 00

$16,483 75

Ordinary.

One boatswain's mate

$228 00

One carpenter's mate

228 00

Sis seamen, $144 each

864 00

Fourteen ordinary seamen,
$120 each

1,680 00

3,000 00

Civil.

One storekeeper

$1,700 00

One assistant master builder

1,000 00

One inspector and measurer
of timber

900 00

One clerk to yard

900 00

One clerk to commandant

900 00

One clerk (2d) to commandant

750 00

One clerk to storekeeper

750 00

One clerk to assistant master
builder

420 00

One master camboose-maker
and plumber

1,200 00

One master chain cable and
anchor maker

1,000 00

One keeper of magazine

480 00

One porter

300 00

$10,300 00

$29,783 75

--743--

Amount.

Aggregate.

NORFOLK.

Naval.

One captain

$3,500 00

One commander

2,100 00

Two lieutenants, $1,500 each

3,000 00

Two masters, $1,000 each

2,000 00

One surgeon

1,800 00

Two assistant surgeons, $950
each

1,900 00

One chaplain

1,200 00

Two professors, $1,200 each

2,400 00

Four midshipmen, $350 each

1,400 00

One boatswain

500 00

One gunner

500 00

One carpenter

500 00

One sailmaker

500 00

One purser

1,141 75

One steward, assistant to
purser

360 00

One steward

216 00

$23,017 75

Ordinary.

Three lieutenants, $1,500
each

$4,500 00

One master

1,000 00

Six midshipmen, $350 each

2,100 00

One boatswain

500 00

One gunner

500 00

One carpenter

500 00

Four carpenter's mates; three
as caulkers, $228 each

912 00

Two boatswain's mates $228
each

456 00

Fourteen seamen, $144

2,016 00

Thirty-six ordinary seamen,
$120 each

4,320 00

16,804 00

Hospital.

One surgeon

$1,750 00

One assistant surgeon

950 00

One steward

360 00

Two nurses, (when the number
of sick requires them,) $120 each

240 00

Two washers, (when the number
of sick requires them,) $96 each

192 00

One cook

144 00

3,636 00

Civil.

One storekeeper

$1,700 00

One master builder

2,300 00

One inspector and measurer
of timber

1,050 00

One clerk to yard

900 00

One clerk to commandant

900 00

One clerk (2d) to commandant

750 00

One clerk to store-keeper

750 00

One clerk (2d) to store-keeper

450 00

One clerk to master builder

650 00

One keeper of magazine

480 00

One porter

300 00

10,230 00

$53,687 75

Note.—The surgeon and assistant
surgeons of the yard are to be required to attend to the duties of the yard, to
those of the receiving ship, and to the marines; one to be always on board the receiving*
ship.

Amount.

Aggregate.

PENSACOLA.

Naval.

One captain

$3,500 00

One commander

2,100 00

Two lieutenants, $1,500 each

3,000 00

One master

1,000 00

One surgeon

1,800 00

One assistant surgeon

950 00

One chaplain

1,200 00

Three midshipmen, $350 each

1,050 00

One boatswain

500 00

One gunner

500 00

One carpenter

500 00

One sailmaker

500 00

One purser

1,141 75

One steward

216 00

$17,957 75

--744--

Amount.

Aggregate.

Ordinary.

One carpenter

$500 00

One carpenter's mate

228 00

One boatswain's mate

228 00

Ten seamen, $144 each

1,440 00

Ten ordinary seamen, $120
each

1,200 00

$3,596 00

Hospital.

One surgeon

$1,750 00

One assistant surgeon

950 00

One steward

360 00

Two nurses (when the number
of the sick requires them,) $120 each

240 00

Two washers (when the number
of the sick requires them,) $96 each

192 00

One cook

144 00

3,636 00

Civil.

One storekeeper

$1,700 00

One clerk to the yard

900 00

One clerk to commandant

900 00

One clerk to storekeeper

500 00,

One porter

300 00

4,300 00

$29,489 75

Note.—The surgeon and assistant
surgeon of the yard to attend to the duties of the yard, the ordinary, the marines,
and the receiving ship, should one be allowed.

STATIONS.

Baltimore.

Amount.

Aggregate.

One captain

$3,500 00

One lieutenant

1,500 00

One. surgeon

1,500 00

One purser

862 50

7,362 50

Charleston.

One captain

$3,500 00

One lieutenant

1,500 00

One surgeon

1,500 00

One purser and storekeeper

1,189 75

7,689 75

Sackett's Harbor

One master

$1,000 00

1,000 00

On duty at Washington, or on general duty.

Ordnance:

One captain

$3,500 00

One lieutenant

1,500 00

5,000 00

Chart and instrument depot.

One lieutenant

$1,500 00

One passed midshipman

750 00

2,250 00

One chief naval instructor

$3,000 00

One civil engineer

4,000 00

7,000 00

Foreign stations.

One storekeeper at Mahon

$1,200 00

One storekeeper at Rio de
Janeiro

1,500 00

2,700 00

--745--

RECAPITULATION.

Naval.
1st item.

Ordinary.
1st item.

Hospital.
1st item.

Civil.
2d item.

Aggregate.

Portsmouth

$14,107 75

$4,032 00

$5,600 00

$23,739 75

Boston

23,017 75

16,804 00

$3,636 00

10,080 00

53,537 75

New York

23,017 75

16,804 00

3,636 00

310,080 00

53,537 75

Philadelphia

14,907 75

3,744 00

3,636 00

7,150 00

29,437 75

Washington

16,483 75

3,000 00

10,300 00

29,783 75

Norfolk

23,017 75

16,804 00

3,636 00

10,230 00

53,687 75

Pensacola

17,957 75

3,596 00

3,636 00

4,300 00

29,489 75

Baltimore

7,362 50

7,362 50

Charleston

7,689 75

7,689 75

Sackett's Harbor

1,000 00

1,000 00

Ordnance

5,000 00

5,000 00

Instrument depot

2,250 00

2,250 00

Naval constructor

3,000 00

3,000 00

Civil engineer

4,000 00

4,000 00

Navy storekeepers

2,700 00

2,700 00

$155,812 50

$64,784 00

$18,180 00

$67,440 00

$306,216 50

Under this item of the estimates,
the following changes are proposed for 1836, in the number of persons and their
compensation, as allowed for the year 1835, viz:

In the naval branch.—A steward, as an assistant to the purser
at Washington, is proposed, at the usual pay of $30 per month, equal to $360. The
number of mechanics employed at this yard renders this addition necessary, in the
opinion of the board.

In the hospital branch.—An increase of pay, from $18 to $30
per month, is proposed for the stewards of the hospitals at Boston, New York,
Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Pensacola, amounting, in the whole, to $720. This addition
is proposed, from the belief that it will be necessary to command the services of
persons possessing the requisite information to perform the increased duties, and
sustain the increased responsibilities, which will hereafter be allotted to them
in the permanent hospitals now about to be opened.

In the civil branch.—It is proposed to increase the compensation
of the master builder and inspector of timber at Portsmouth, N. H., to the amount
of $300. The compensation for the performance of both duties has, for some years
past, only been equal to that allowed for the performance of the duties of inspector
of timber at other yards. As the duties will be greater hereafter, in consequence
of the quantities of timber delivering under contracts, it is deemed just to increase
the compensation in a corresponding degree. The compensation to the principal clerks
to the storekeepers at Boston, New York, and Norfolk, is proposed to be increased
from $600 to $750. The second clerks, at the same yards, from $360 to $450. The
storekeepers' clerks at Portsmouth, Philadelphia, and Pensacola, from $350 to $500;
and at Washington, from $500 to $750. An increase is also proposed for the clerks
to the master builders at Boston, New York, and Norfolk, from $500 to $650, and
those at Portsmouth and Philadelphia, from $400 to $500 each. The person charged
with the management and repair of steam engines and sawmills, formerly paid by an
annual salary of $800, it is now proposed to place on daily pay, to be paid for
his actual attendance only. This renders the whole increase under this head equal
to $1,570, making the total increase equal to $2,650.

An increase of compensation
to the different clerks has been solicited by them, upon the grounds that their
present compensation was insufficient to meet their necessary expenses at their
several places of residence, and that it was not proportioned to the compensation
granted to other persons in the yards having no greater responsibilities, and performing
duties requiring no greater qualifications. From the representations made by the
commandants of the yards, and other officers, the board were satisfied that the
first ground taken by the clerks was generally correct, and they coincided in opinion
with them as respects the relative responsibilities and necessary qualifications.

The board, influenced by these
considerations, have, therefore, proposed to place the principal clerks of the storekeepers,
as heretofore, at the same compensation as the second clerks to commandants, which
was established by the law of the last session, and to submit a proportionate increase
to the other clerks, modified, in a slight degree, by the amount of labor to be
performed, and the ordinary cost of subsistence, at the respective yards.

--746--

D, 5.

Exhibit of the commission and warrant officers that will
be waiting orders, and on furlough, for the year 1836, by the estimates, being part
of the first item in the general estimate.

WAITING ORDERS.

12

captains

$207,200 00

6

commanders

89

lieutenants

4

surgeons

47

passed midshipmen

*86

midshipmen

ON FURLOUGH.

2

commanders

5,162 50

3

lieutenants

1

purser

2

passed midshipmen

2

midshipmen

$212,362 50

D, 6.

Estimate of the amount required for provisions for the
year 1836, explanatory
of the third item in the general estimate.

6,269

persons in vessels in commission,
besides the marines embarked.

524

marines embarked in vessels
in commission.

396

enlisted persons attached
to receiving vessels and shore stations.

Making 7,189 persons in total,
at one ration each per day, makes 2,623,985 rations, which, at twenty-five cents
per ration, is equal to

$655,996 25

From this sum there may be
deducted (estimating the balance that may remain in the Treasury on the 1st January,
1836, which, it is presumed, will not be required) the sum of

65,096 25

Which will leave

$590,000 00

Being the amount asked for
in the third item of the general estimate.

D, 7.

Estimates of the proposed improvements and repairs to be
made in navy yards during the year 1836, explanatory of the sixth item in the general estimate.

NAVY YARD, PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

For building timber shed

$18,000 00

Towards mast and boat house

25,000 00

For a timber dock

20,000 00

Repairs of all kinds

4,000 00

$67,000 00

NAVY YARD, BOSTON.

For the ropewalk

$63,000 00

For the tarring house

9,000 00

For the steam engine and
machinery for laying up

30,000 00

For spinning machinery

15,000 00

For a hemp house

38,000 00

For storehouse No. 15

35,275 00

For repairing and replacing
masting shears

3,575 00

For yard wall at northeast
corner

1,500 00

For completing the change
of fronts to officers' quarters

1,225 00

For the repairs of docks,
wharves, and buildings in the yard

3,000 00

$199,575 00

* Embracing seventy-five midshipmen,
who, after examination, may be entitled to bo arranged as passed midshipmen, in
addition to their pay as midshipmen, $300 each.

--747--

NAVY YARD, NEW YORK.

For securing and preserving
the ordnance, or for repairing the gun block

$5,000 00

For building offices

9,000 00

For building a timber shed

21,000 00

Launching slip to ship house
No. 1

9,500 00

To enlarge smithery

2,500 00

For well and reservoir for
watering ships

2,500 00

For leveling the yard and
filling in

5,700 00

For walls to enclose the
yard on the lines, by the wharf and back of the stores, from the south end of
the present wall to southwest corner of yard, from southwest corner to the magazine
or southeast corner, from entrance gate to present wall

18,500 00

Slip for boat house

1,600 00

Repairs of ship house No.
2

5,000 00

For the repairs of other
buildings, wharves, and docks

4,000 00

$84,300 00

NAVY YARD, PHILADELPHIA.

For raising brick wall on
north side of ship house No 2

$800 00

For extending brick wall
from the east end of ship house No. 2 to the end of the wharf, 80 feet

800 00

For plunking over slip at
east end of ship house No 1

470 00

New floor for mould loft,
and six fireproof windows

700 00

For paving timber shed No
4

850 00

For paving ground in front
of officers' quarters

130 00

For painting offices, &c.,
&c.

350 00

For building an engine and
hose house, 40 feet by 30

1,500 00

For building frame saw shed

1,650 00

For repairs

500 00

For tinning ship house No.
2

3,500 00

$11,750 00

NAVY YARD, WASHINGTON.

A timber shed

$16,000 00

Repairs to ship house W

1,500 00

Repairs to buildings, fences,
and gutters

5,000 00

Foundation for building slip
where the Columbia now stands

15,000 00

$37,500 00

NAVY YARD, NORFOLK.

For the eastern wall and
entrance gates to the timber dock

$38,000 00

For the quay wall on east
side of yard, including launching ways of the Macedonian

23,500 00

For a quay wall from timber
dock round to meet the present east wharves

26,000 00

For a steam engine to pump
out coffer dams

1,500 00

For smithery No. 9

21,000 00

For two houses, No, 39, and
dependencies

27,000 00

For houses Nos. 2 and 3,
and dependencies

7,000 00

For No. 28, mast house

6,500 00

For boat house No. 29

1,500 00

For repairs of ship house
B

10,000 00

For repairs of all other
buildings, docks, and wharves

5,000 00

$167,000 00

NAVY YARD, PENSACOLA.

For a bakery and mess room

$3,000 00

For a brick kitchen, and
filling up cellars

1,500 00

For slating navy store

4,000 00

For a cistern

5,000 00

For three third class houses

27,000 00

For a building to accommodate
assistant surgeon and sick in the yard

5,500 00

Wharf

15,000 00

Repairs

3,000 00

$64,000 00

RECAPITULATION.

Portsmouth, N. H.

$67,000 00

Boston

199,575 00

New York

84,300 00

Philadelphia

11,750 00

Washington

37,500 00

Norfolk

167,000 00

Pensacola

64,000 00

$631,125 00

--748--

E.

Special estimates for extraordinary purposes, or for objects
not embraced in the usual annual estimates for the current service of the navy.

No 1.

FOR STEAM VESSELS.

For completing the steam
vessels-of-war, now building at the Navy yard, Brooklyn, New York, in aid of the
amount which may be available from the appropriation for the gradual increase
of the navy

$150 000 00

For building, equipping and
arming complete, three steam vessels-of-war

675,000 00

Total

$825,000 00

The Board of Navy Commissioners
would respectfully remark that, from a want of experience in the construction and
equipment of steam vessels-of-war in this country, it is possible that these estimates
may not prove as accurate as might be wished; but, from the best information which
they have been able to obtain, they believe, that the amounts asked will be sufficient
for the objects proposed.

No. 2.

HOSPITALS.

For the completion of the
hospitals near New York and Boston, and for regulating the grounds, and building
necessary enclosures, and repairing the Naval asylum and all other hospitals,
and the buildings, wharves and. landings dependent upon and connected with them,
and for preparing suitable burying grounds

$45,410 00

No. 3.

POWDER MAGAZINES.

For building a powder magazine
near the Navy yard, Pensacola

$17,000 00

For completing the magazines
near New York and Boston, and for the necessary landings, enclosures and other
dependencies

19,200 00

$36,200 00

No. 4.

COAST SURVEY.

Towards the survey of the
coast of the United States

$80,000 00

JNO. RODGERS.

I. CHAUNCEY.

C. MORRIS.

E, No. 1.

Estimate of the several works, and their probable cost,
which it is proposed to construct at the several navy yards.

PORTSMOUTH, N. H.

Timber docks, and quay walls,
ship houses and launching ways

$100,000 00

BOSTON.

A ship house and launching
slip

$40,000 00

Walls and wet basin

250,000 00

Excavations and filling up

60,000 00

Wharves

50,000 00

Quay walls

30,000 00

Hydraulic dock or inclined
plane

120,000 00

550,000 00

NEW YORK.

Quay walls, launching slips
and timber docks

$550,000 00

Dry dock

900,000 00

1,450,000 00

PHILADELPHIA.

Quay walls and appendages

60,000 00

WASHINGTON.

Timber docks and wharves

65,000 00

--749--

NORFOLK.

Quay walls, landing slips
and timber docks

$704,000 00

Three ship houses

125,000 00

Canal at south side of yard,
&c.

46,000 00

Hydraulic dock or inclined
plane

125,000 00

$1,000,000 00

PENSACOLA.

Wharves and appendages

$150,000 00

Hydraulic dock or inclined
plane

125,000 00

275,000 00

$3,500,000 00

P.

General estimate of the expenses of the marine corps for
the year 1836.

There will be required for
the support of the marine corps during the year 1836, in addition to the balances
which may remain on hand on the 1st of January, 1836, the sum of $488,856.19.

Paymaster's department.

1.

For the pay of the officers,
non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, and subsistence of the officers
of the marine corps

$163,077 25

Quartermaster's department.

2.

For the provisions for the
non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates serving on shore, servants and
washerwomen

$33,517 72

3.

For clothing

38,655 00

4.

For fuel

14,589 00

5.

For repair of barracks near
Portsmouth, N. H., and for repairs at other stations

8,900 00

6.

For the purchase of sites
and erection of barracks near Charlestown, New York, Norfolk, and Pensacola

200,000 00

7.

For transportation of officers,
non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, and expenses of recruiting

For contingencies, namely:
Freight, ferriage, toll, wharfage, and cartage; per diem allowance for
attending courts-martial and courts of inquiry; compensation to judge advocate;
house rent where there are no public quarters assigned; incidental labor in the
Quartermaster's department; expenses of burying deceased persons belonging to
the marine corps; printing, stationery, forage, postage on public letters; expenses
in pursuit of deserters; candles and oil for the different stations, straw for
the men, barrack furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, and carpenter's
tools

17,977 93

325,778 94

Total amount

$488,856 19

Note.—The excess of this estimate
over the appropriations for 1835 arises principally from the sum of $200,000, proposed
for the purchase of sites and erection of barracks.

--750--

F, 1.

Detailed estimate of pay and subsistence of officers, and
pay of non-commissioned officers, musicians, and privates of the marine corps of
the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty- six.

Pay.

Subsistence.

Rank and Grade.

Number.

Pay per month.

Extra pay per month.

Servants at $8.

Servants at $6.

Total.

Number of rations per day
at 20 cents per rations.

Extra rations per day while
commanding, at 29 cents per rations.

Number of rations per day
at 25 cents per rations.

Total.

Aggregate amount.

Colonel commandant

1

$75 00

2

$1,044 00

6

6

$878 40

$1,922 40

Lieutenant colonel

1

60 00

2

864 00

5

5

732 00

1,596 00

Majors

4

50 00

2

2,976 00

4

4

2,342 40

5,318 40

Adjutant and inspector

1

50 00

2

744 00

4

292 80

1,036 80

Quartermaster

1

60 00

2

912 00

4

292 80

1,204 80

Paymaster

1

50 00

2

744 00

4

292 80

1,036 80

Assistant quartermaster

1

40 00

$20

1

792 00

4

292 8.0

1,084 80

Captains, commanding posts
at sea

5

50 00

1

3,360 00

4

4

2,928 00

6,288 00

Captains, commanding companies

4

50 00

1

2,688 00

4

1,171 20

3,859 20

First lieutenants, commanding
companies and guards at sea

4

40 00

1

2,208 00

4

1,171 20

3,379 20

First lieutenants

16

30 00

1

6,912 00

4

4,684 80

11,596 80

Second lieutenants

20

25 00

1

7,440 00

4

5,856 00

13,296 00

Hospital steward

1

18 00

16 00

1

73 25

289 25

Sergeant major

1

17 00

204 00

204 00

Quartermaster sergeant

1

17 00

20

444 00

444 00

Drum and fife majors

2

16 00

384 00

384 00

Orderly sergeants and sergeants
of guards at sea

27

16 00

5,184 00

5,184 00

Orderly sergeants, employed
as clerks to colonel commandant, adjutant and inspector, and quartermaster

3

16 00

20

1,296 00

1,296 00

Sergeants

50

13 00

7,800 00

7,800 00

Corporals

80

9 00

8,640 00

8,640 00

Drummers and fifers

60

8 00

5,760 00

5,760 00

Privates

932

7 00

78,288 00

78,288 00

Clerk to paymaster

1

8 80

20

345 60

1

73 20

418 80

Amount required for two months'
pay as bounty for re-enlistment, under act of 2d March, 1833

125

1,750 00

1,750 00

Amount required for payment
of musicians and privates' retained pay, under act of 2d March, 1833

1,000 00

1,000 00

$141,995 60

$21,081 65

$163,077 25

F, 2. provisions.

For whom required.

Enlisted men.

Washerwomen.

Matron.

Servants.

Clerks.

Total.

Rations per day, at 12 cents.

Rations per day, at 20 cents.

Aggregate amount.

For provisions for non-commissioned
officers, musicians, privates, and washerwomen, serving on shore

581

39

1

621

1

$27,274 32

For provisions for clerks
and officers' servants

68

4

72

1

5,343 40

Amount required for two months'
rations for each soldier, as premium for re-enlisting, agreeably to the act of
March 2, 1833.

125

1

900 00

$33,517 72

--751--

F, 3.

CLOTHING.

For whom required.

Enlisted men.

Servants.

Total.

Aggregate amount.

For clothing for the non-commissioned
officers, musicians, and privates, at $30 a year each

1,156

1,156

$34,680 00

For clothing for officers'
servants, at $30 a year each

69

69

2,070 00

Amount required for two months'
clothing for each soldier, as premium for re-enlisting, agreeably to the act of
2d March, 1833, at $5 each

Those building under the laws
for the gradual increase of the navy are distributed as follows:

AT PORTSMOUTH, N. H.

One ship of the line, one frigate.

AT CHARLESTOWN, MASS.

Two ships of the line, one
frigate.

AT BROOKLYN, N. Y.

Two frigates, one steam vessel.

* On her return to the United
States. † Arrived at Gibraltar Sept. 11, 1836.

--753--

AT PHILADELPHIA.

One ship of the line, one frigate.

AT WASHINGTON.

One frigate.

AT GOSPORT, VA.

One ship of the line, one frigate.

All these vessels are under
cover, and generally in good order, with the exception of their keels, keelsons,
and deadwoods, of which some have been found to be defective.

There is building at Norfolk
a frigate, under the authority of the act of Congress of July 10, 1832, to replace
the Macedonian; she has a roof over her, and is in a state of perfect preservation.

K.

Statement of the measures which have been taken to carry
into effect the laws for the gradual increase of the navy, approved April 29, 1816, and March 3, 1821.

The ships of the line Columbus,
NorthCarolina, and Delaware, have been built and in service
for several years.

The ship of the line, Ohio,
was launched in May, 1820, but has never been equipped, nor has her hull been completed;
she now requires repairs.

The frigates Brandywine
and Potomac have been completed, and employed for several years.

Five ships of the line and
seven frigates remain upon the stocks, all under tight houses. They are generally
sound and in good condition, with the exception of the keels, keelsons, and deadwoods,
of which some have become defective, and will require to be replaced. The ships
are all, however, so far advanced that it is believed they can be completed and
equipped by the time that crews could be collected for them.

A steam vessel has been recently
commenced, under this appropriation, at the Navy yard at Brooklyn, and such arrangements
made as the present state of the appropriation will justify. The amount in the Treasury
on the 1st of October, 1835, was but $156,261, and, as a part of this must necessarily
be devoted to the completion of the frigate Columbia, which has been directed
to be launched, some further provision will be necessary to complete the steam vessel.
This may be made by a direct appropriation, or, if admissible, by the transfer of
materials purchased for "gradual increase," but which are not now wanted
for that appropriation, to " repairs," for which they are required, and
by transferring their value from the appropriation for "repairs" to the
appropriation for "gradual increase"

Besides the articles which
might be thus transferred with advantage, there are others to a large amount in
the different navy yards that can be advantageously preserved for this appropriation,
to which they belong.

The distribution of the ships
building is shown in statement I.

It may be proper to remark
that additional appropriations will be necessary before these vessels can be completed,
as was more fully stated in a recent communication from the board.

L.

Statement of the measures which have been adopted to carry
into effect the laws for the gradual improvement of the navy, approved March 3, 1827, and March 2, 1833

The live oak frames for four
ships of the line, for seven frigates, and for four sloops-of-war, complete, have
been delivered; the greater part of the frames of a frigate and sloop-of-war have
also been delivered at the Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and part of the
frame of a sloop-of-war at the Navy yard at Washington.

The complete frames are distributed
as follows:

At the Navy yard, Charlestown,
Massachusetts, for two ships of the line, for two frigates, and for one sloop-of-war.

At the Navy yard, Brooklyn,
New York, for one frigate.

At the Navy yard, Philadelphia,
for two frigates and one sloop-of-war.

At the Navy yard, Washington,
for one frigate and one sloop-of-war.

At the Navy yard, Gosport,
Virginia, for two ships of the line, one frigate, and one sloop-of-war.

Contracts have been entered
into, and have been in part executed, for the white oak and yellow pine timber,
and for the copper and iron necessary to complete the hulls of these vessels, and
for "their masts and spars.

Dry docks at Charlestown, Massachusetts,
and at Gosport, Virginia, have been built from this appropriation, and other expenses
incurred, under the provisions of the law, for buildings to preserve the materials,
for receiving and storing them, and for the purchase, selection, preservation and
improvement of lands for the cultivation of live oak trees.

The cost of works and materials to the 1st of October,
1835, under
this appropriation, have been as follows:

For the dry dock at Charlestown,
Massachusetts

$677,089 78

For the dry dock at Gosport,
Virginia

974,356.69

For timber sheds and other
buildings

143,508 84

For receiving and storing
materials

142,894 59

For purchase of land, cultivation
and preservation of live oak trees

68,224 76

--754--

For 395,143 cubic feet live
oak timber

$499,297 35

For 286,653 cubic feet white
oak timber

94,653 08

For 327,531 superficial
feet white Oak plank

17,304 25

For 7,718 white oak knees

42,803 87

For 251,056 cubic feet of
yellow pine, for plank

79,936 37

For 120,595 cubic feet yellow
pine, for masts and spars

58,902 99

For 45,896 cubic feet yellow
pine, for beams, &c.

23,489 73

For 915,670 lbs. of iron

34,384 02

For 826,449 lbs. of copper

173,244 73

Total

$3,030,091 05

From which deduct reservations
as security for completion of contracts not yet paid

27,335 25

Leaves a balance of

$3,002,755 80

Which, deducted from the
whole amount appropriated to the present time, equal to

4,500,000 00

Leaves a balance of

$1,497,245 20

Of which there remained in
the Treasury on the 1st Oct., 1835, the sum of

$1,454,316 46

The balance, supposed to
be in the hands of navy agents, is

42,929 34

Making a total, as above,
of

$1,497,245 20

Of this sum there will be
required, to meet existing engagements under contracts, about

616,000 00

Leaving, for other purposes,
about

$881,245 20

Advertisements have been issued
inviting offers for furnishing the live oak frames for five ships of the line, six
frigates, five sloops-of-war, five schooners, and three steamers, which, if contracted
for, will probably require about $600,000 of the balance remaining, "after
meeting existing engagements.

M.

Statements showing the balance standing to the credit of
the navy pension fund on the first day of November, 1834; the amount of receipts' and
disbursements on account of said fund, from that date to the first of October,
1835; and the amount of advances to agents during the same period.

1.

Balance in the Treasury to
the credit of the fund on the 1st day of November, 1834, per Register's report.

$9,223 00

2.

Amount received into the
Treasury since that time, from whom, and on what account, viz: 1834.

Nov. 28.

From United States district
attorney, Baltimore, for part of balance recovered in a suit against Joseph D.
Learned

$49 60

Dec. 16.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for sale of United States Bank stock

21,600 00

Dec. 31.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for sale of United States Bank stock

5,261 38

1835.

Jan. 19.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for dividends on United States Bank stock

20,643 00

Jan. 29.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for interest on Maryland stocks.

3,562 87

Feb. 5.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for interest on Pennsylvania stocks

5,311 73

March 13.

From Richard Smith, cashier,
for balance due on settlement

25

April 1.

From H. Toland, navy agent,
Philadelphia, refunded

200 00

April 13.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for dividend on Union Bank stock

300 00

April 14.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for interest on Cincinnati corporation stock

2,500 00

June 6.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for sale of United States Bank stock

22,493 62

July 10.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for interest on Maryland stock 1,789 66

July 21.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for dividends on United States Bank stock

20,706 00

August 5.

From the Bank of Pennsylvania,
for proceeds of property taken from the pirates, and sold in Smyrna by the American
consul

145 00

August 22.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for interest on Pennsylvania stock

5,311 73

August 25.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for interest on Maryland stock.

1,752 78

Total amount of receipts

$111,627 62

--755--

3.

Disbursements made from the
fund, from the 1st day of November, 1834, to the 1st day of October, 1835, viz:

1834.

Dec. 1.

Paid the Secretary of the
Treasury, for eighty-five shares of United States Bank stock

$8,500 00

Dec. 1.

Paid Elizabeth Sevier, for
five years' pension

1,200 00

Dec. 1.

Paid Susannah Taggart, (widow
of S. A. Eakin,) for pension due her prior to her second marriage

256 67

1835.

Jan. 16.

Paid Ann Stevenson (widow),
for pension due her from 27th August 1813, to the 1st of January, 1835

5,122 64

Feb. 11.

Paid the Secretary of the
Treasury, for 228 shares of stock of the Bank of the United States

22,800 00

Feb. 25.

Paid Abigail C. Fernald,
for five years' pension

360 00

April 15.

Paid the Secretary of the
Treasury, for 40 shares of stock of the Bank of the United States

4,000 00

May 28.

Paid Hannah Hazen, for five
years' pension

360 00

June 26.

Paid Caroline M. Arnold,
for balance of pension due to 11th March, 1835

79 82

July 13.

Paid the Secretary of the
Treasury, for 110 shares of United States Bank stock

11,000 00

Aug. 1.

Paid the Secretary of the
Treasury for 170 shares of United States Bank stock

17,000 00

Sept. 14.

Paid the Secretary of the
Treasury, for 80 shares of United States Bank stock

8,000 00

Aug. 7.

Paid President of the Branch
Bank of the United States, Washington, for balance due him for payments to pensioners

228 69

Total amount of disbursements

$78,907 82

4.

Advances to agents to pay
pensions, viz:

1834.

Nov. 11.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Pittsburg, Penn.

$36 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Washington, D. C.

514 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at New Orleans, La.

200 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Savannah, Ga.

120 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Charleston, S. C.

300 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Portsmouth, N. H.

400 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Providence, R. I.

500 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Norfolk, Va.

4,300 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Bank
of the United States, at Philadelphia, Penn.

2,000 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Farmers'
Bank of New Castle, Del.

48 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Trenton
Banking Company, N. J.

36 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Hartford, Conn.

700 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Baltimore, Md.

2,200 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Cincinnati, Ohio

90 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Portland, Me.

450 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Pittsburg; Penn.

130 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at New York, N. Y.

1,000 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Louisville, Ken.

800 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Boston, Mass.

3,000 00

Dec. 13.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at St. Louis, Mo.

36 00

Dec. 31.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Washington, D. C.

1,000 00

1835.

Jan. 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Savannah, Ga.

120 00

Jan. 22.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Ports mouth, N. H.

182 00

--756--

Jan. 24.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Mobile, Ala.

$44 20

Feb. 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Portsmouth, N. H.

100 00

Feb. 20.

To H. Toland, navy agent,
Philadelphia, Penn

200 00

March 10.

To Elias Kane, navy agent,
Washington, D. C.

40 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Boston, Mass.

3,300 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Norfolk, Va.

800 00

June 9.

To the president of the Farmers'
Bank, at New Castle, Del

48 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank, of the United States, at Portsmouth, N. H.

700 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Portland, Me.

600 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at New York, N. Y.

5,000 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Louisville, Ky.

300 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at New Orleans, La.

50 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at St. Louis, Mo.

36 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Mobile, Ala

50 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Baltimore, Md.

2,000 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Cincinnati, Ohio.

90 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Providence, R. I.

700 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Pittsburg, Penn.

158 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Savannah, Ga.

300 00

June 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Charleston, S. C.

180 00

June 9.

To the president of the Trenton
Banking Company, New Jersey

72 00

June 13.

To the president of the Farmers
and Mechanics' Bank, at Hartford, Conn.

200 00

June 29.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Norfolk, Va.

600 00

July 1.

To the president of the Bank
of the United States, at Philadelphia, Penn.

1,182 00

July 9.

To the president of the Bank
of the United States, at Philadelphia, Penn.

200 00

July 21.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Baltimore, Md.

950 00

Sept 1.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at New York, N. Y.

240 00

Sept. 3.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at New York, N. Y.

120 00

Sept. 9.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Louisville, Ky.

120 00

Sept. 25.

To the president of the Branch
Bank of the United States, at Washington, D. C.

Statement showing the balance standing to the credit of
the privateer pension fund on the 1st day of November, 1834, the amount of receipts and
disbursements on account of said fund from that date to the 1st of October, 1835,
and the amount of advances to agents during that period.

1.

Balance in the Treasury to
the credit of the fund on the 1st November, 1834, per Register's report

$1,261 46

2.

Amount received into the
Treasury since that time, from whom, and on what account, viz: 1834.

Dec. 16.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for sale of Maryland five per cent. stocks

$3,097 24

1835.

Jan. 29.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for interest on Maryland stock

319 31

March 31.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for sale of Maryland stock

528 68

March 13.

From R. Smith, cashier, for
balance at settlement

11

April 9.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for sale of Maryland stock

523 69

May 21.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for sale of Maryland stock

1,057 35

June 6.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for sale of Maryland stock

2,326 17

July 10.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for interest on Maryland stock

106 43

July 25.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for interest on Maryland stock

57 50

Aug. 25.

From the Secretary of the
Navy, for interest on Maryland stock

104 58

$8,12[] 06

3.

Disbursements made from the
fund from the 1st day of November, 1834, to the 1st October, 1835:

1834.

Jan. 22.

Paid Mary Conklin, for five
years pension

$1,200 00

Jan. 22.

Paid Andrew Desendorf, for
pension due him from the 4th July, 1829, to 1st of January, 1835

263 47

March 13.

Paid Sally Thomas, widow,
for 5 years' pension

360 00

March 13.

Paid Catharine C. McMurray,
for 5 years' pension

480 00

March 13.

Paid Sally Mulloy, for 5
years' pension

360 00

May 7.

Paid Ann Bennett, for 5 years'
pension

360 00

May 21.

Paid Patience Elden, for
5 years pension

480 00

May 30.

Paid Rachel Ridley, for 5
years pension

360 00

Aug. 20.

Paid president Branch Bank
United States, Washington, D. C, for balance due him on payments to pensioners
to 1st January last.

72 00

$3,935 47

4.

Advances to agents to pay
pensions, viz:

1833.

Dec. 13.

To president Branch Bank
United States, Portsmouth, N. H.

$600 00

Dec. 13.

To president Branch Bank
United States, Philadelphia

120 00

Dec. 13.

To president Branch Bank
United States, Providence, R. I.

18 00

Dec. 13.

To president Branch Bank
United States, Baltimore

234 00

Dec. 13.

To president Branch Bank
United States, Portland, Maine

504 00

Dec. 13.

To president Branch Bank
United States, New York

450 00

Dec. 13.

To president Branch Bank-United
States, Boston

900 00

March 14.

To president Branch Bank
United States, Washington

72 00

June 9.

To president Branch Bank
United States, Boston

1,000 00

June 9.

To president Branch Bank
United States, Portland, Maine

300 00

June 9.

To president Branch Bank
United States, New York

500 00

June 9.

To president Branch Bank
United States, Providence, R. I.

36 00

June 9.

To president Bank of the
United States, Philadelphia

50 00

July 3.

To president Bank of the
United States, Philadelphia

218 00

$5,002 00

Five per cent. Maryland stock
owned by the fund

$8,367 05

J. C. PICKETT.

Treasury Department, Fourth
Auditor's Office, November 12, 1835.

O.

Navy hospital fund.

Balance in the Treasury,
November 1, 1834

$35,559 04

Repayments from November
1, 1834, to October 1, 1835

20,349 09

$55,908 13

Payments from November 1,
1834, to October 1, 1835

3,029 34

Balance, October 1, 1835

$52,878 79

--758--

P.

Suppression of the slave trade, under act of March 3, 1819.

1834.

Dr.

Nov. 19.

To balance in the Treasury
this day

$14,213 91

1835.

Nov. 11.

To balance in the Treasury
this day

$13,489 55

1834.

Cr.

Dec. 24.

By bill of exchange of John
B. Pinny, agent

$149 91

Dec. 29.

By bill of exchange of John
B. Pinny, agent

100 00

Dec. 29.

By bill of exchange of John
B. Pinny, agent

174 45

1835.

March 9.

By bill of exchange of John
B. Pinny, agent

150 00

Oct. 15.

By bill of exchange of John
B. Pinny, agent

150 00

Nov. 11.

By amount to balance

13,489 55

$14,213 91

List of deaths in the navy of the United States, as ascertained
at the Department, since 1stof December, 1834.

Name and rank.

Date.

Cause.

Place.

CAPTAINS.

B. V. Hoffman

Dec. 10, 1834

Jamaica, N. T.

John D. Henley

May 23, 1835

On board the Vandalia
at the Havana.

Wolcott Chauncey

Oct. 14, 1835

Navy yard, Pensacola.

LIEUTENANTS.

Wm. Taylor

Jan. 13, 1835

Naval hospital, Norfolk.

John Evans

Feb. 5, 1835

Naval hospital, Philadelphia.

Samuel B. Cocke

May 31, 1835

Consumption

Portsmouth, Va.

David E. Stewart

Aug. 6, 1835

Girgenti, coast of Sicily.

H. J. Auchmuty

Oct. 8, 1835

Westchester county, N. Y.

SURGEONS.

Gerard Dayers

May 20, 1835

Roxbury, near Boston.

Hyde Ray

Sept. 7, 1835

Annapolis, Md.

ASSISTANT SURGEON.

Frederick Wessels

Nov. 15, 1835

At sea, on board the Falmouth.

PURSER.

George Beale

April 4, 1835

Washington.

PASSED MIDSHIPMAN.

Wm. C. Farrar

Feb. 24, 1835

Killed by a fall from a horse

Near St. Louis, Mo.

MIDSHIPMEN.

John A. Jarvis

1834

David Irwin

Oct. 8, 1834

Pensacola.

George Macomber

Nov. 12, 1834

At sea, on board the Falmouth.

John Bannister

June 3, 1835

Rio de Janeiro.

Thos. W. Magruder

July 4, 1835

Killed by accidental discharge
of a gun

Baltimore.

GUNNERS.

Stephen Jones

Feb. 8, 1834

Norfolk, Va.

Francis Gardner

May 1, 1835

Buenos Ayres.

CARPENTER.

Elliott Green

Nov. 14, 1834

At sea, on board the Falmouth.

MARINE OFFICER.

2d Lt. T. M. W. Young.

July 7, 1835.

Consumption

New York.

--759--

List of resignations in the navy of the United States since
the 1st of December, 1834.

Name and rank.

When accepted.

ASSISTANT SURGEON.

Henry De Witt Paulding

December 1, 1834.

PASSED MIDSHIPMAN.

William H. Burges

December 11, 1834.

MIDSHIPMEN.

R. D. McDonald

December 26, 1834.

Henry G. Hart

December 29, 1834.

Albert Wadsworth

January 19, 1835; declined
accepting his appointment.

J. T. S. Collins

January 31, 1835.

F. V. Delbirge

February 14, 1835.

Charles Burdett

February 25, 1835.

William H. Inskeep

March 20, 1835.

William O. Slade

June 3, 1835.

A. B. Eustis

June 8, 1835.

Robert P. Welsh

July 6, 1835.

William H. Pendleton

July 7, 1835.

H. C. Tilghman

July 24, 1835.

Oliver Perry Baldwin

August 8, 1835.

Baldwin M. Hunter

August 20, 1835.

Alexander C. Blount

October 19, 1835.

BOATSWAINS.

George Blanchard

May 4, 1835, as of March,
1835.

William Waters

June 5, 1835.

SAILMAKER.

Christian Nelson

August 7, 1835.

CARPENTER.

L. Kervan, (acting)

November 30, 1835.

MARINE OFFICER.

Second Lieutenant Edgar Irving

February 27, 1835.

S.

List of dismissions from the navy of the United States
since the 1st of December, 1834.

Name and rank.

Date of dismission.

MIDSHIPMEN.

Thomas W. Gibson

April 30, 1835.

Lewis M. Wilkins

June 29, 1835.

Ninian E. Lake

July 11, 1835.

Robert R. Knox

July 11, 1835.

GUNNER.

Samuel G. City

May 2, 1835.

CARPENTER.

Elisha Ellis

May 23, 1835.

SAILMAKER.

John Roser

May 16, 1835.

T.

Fourth report of F. R. Hassler, as superintendent of the
survey of the coast, upon the operations performed in that work between the months
of May and, December, 1835; with an estimate of the appropriation required
for the next year's work.

1. My report of last May has shown how
much work had been prepared by the primary and secondary triangulations of the preceding
year; the works of 1817, and all the works connected with them; and how these have
been furnished with the most essential element of an accurate base line.

2. The map of assemblage, joined
to my last report, shows that near thirty maps were prepared to be executed last
summer, if the appropriation had allowed to carry on the topographical works with
the activity which I had contemplated, and which it would have been most economical
to make immediately.

3. My report also stated the
different direction which I was compelled to give to the work under the circumstances
which I have there detailed, and I must take the liberty to refer to it.

4. This effect was still increased
by the ordering of the schooner Experiment, in the coast survey work, to a station
for which the necessary previous calculations had been deferred, with a view to
begin the soundings of Long Island Sound only next spring, as the state of the work,
as well as of the appropriation, would naturally have dictated.

5. This circumstance necessitated
me to stay in Washington with two assistants, all engaged in executing the calculations
and projections, upon which all the detail works and soundings connected with it
had necessarily to be grounded.